Chinese Miners Will Return

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Published: Tuesday, 30 May 2017 17:31

It's now just over a year since would-be bauxite miners Bauxite Alumina Joint Ventures (BAJV) left town, closing the door on its shire-owned rental premises next to the Toodyay and Districts Bendigo Community Bank.

The departure followed a dispute between the joint-venture partners Yankuang Resources and Bauxite Resources Limited to conduct a bankable feasibility study to build an alumina refinery for which sites along the east-west rail network somewhere near Northam were being considered.

Since the termination of BAJV and the 100 per cent takeover by the new Chinese state-owned Yankuang Bauxite Resources – with the exception of sponsorship of last year’s Toodyay Agricultural show – there has been an information vacuum in relation to the Felicitas and Fortuna resources located near Morangup, Wundowie (Mauravillo Estate), Woorolloo and other tenements now owned by Yankuang.

Yankuang exploration manager Bruce Groenewald (who has a Yancoal email address) has previously stated that once economic conditions improve in China, they will re-emerge and double up on their efforts to move to a full-blown mining proposal. This is backed up by the ongoing sponsorship of our local agricultural show.

In time Yankuang’s true intensions and time frames will become clear, but while Yankuang or any other mining company hold and maintain live tenements for future bauxite mining, our local communities will remain under threat and therefore the Avon and Hills mining Awareness Group Inc will remain active.

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In this petition we ask both Houses of State Parliament to protect the Darling Range from “Bulk Commodity” mining within 100 km from Perth’s C.B.D.

Please complete and sign each sheet only once, get your family and friends to do the same and send the completed sheets back to AHMAG, PO Box 111, Gidgegannup WA 6083.

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